Archive for April, 2008

The following is a copy of the Outreach Youth Workers Report given at the APCM in April. This was a good opportunity to officially feed back on what had been going onand to share some of the plans I had for the future.

“Thank you for the opportunity to talk about what I’ve been doing as the Outreach Youth Worker here at St Francis of Assisi since starting at the end of October 2007. This is a brief overview of some of the things that have been happening:(more…)

My sister-in-law recently bought my wife and I the complete television series of Cadfael, a medieval who-dunnit set in a Benedictine monastery, which you might remember was filmed in the mid 1990’s and was based on the books by Ellis Peters.(more…)

A Reflective Lent – During Lent a thought that kept returning to me revolved around going with Jesus into the desert. So much so that I made it the theme of some of my youth work – to follow Jesus means going with him to some difficult places. I looked at this with some young people at a local church and also with Bournville School CU. How do we enter into Christ’s resurrection? Perhaps it comes by meeting head-on, with Christ, those things that steal our life from us. Often, that can feel like a very barren place. (more…)